Correspondence to Professor Duncan McVicar, Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5EE, UK; d.mcvicar{at}qub.ac.uk Objectives This paper assessed the impact of working in ...

A simple experimental model was used to study the influence of organic solvents and solvent mixtures on the integrity of biological membranes. Radiolabelled membranes were prepared biosynthetically by ...

Correspondence to Professor Margaret M Quinn, Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA; margaret_quinn{at}uml.edu Objective Violence from care recipients ...

4 Public Health Department, History of Science and Gynaecology, Miguel Hernandez University, Alicante, Spain 5 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Valencia, Spain ...

Objective To determine the prospective association between physical workload—in terms of specific physical exposures and the number of exposures—and long-term sickness absence (LTSA). Methods Using ...

Objectives To provide systematically evaluated evidence of prospective associations between exposure to physical, psychological and gender-based violence and health among healthcare, social care and ...

Correspondence to Dr Melanie Carder, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; melanie.carder{at}manchester.ac.uk Objectives Exposure to ...

Drug utilisation across occupations among pregnant women working in the healthcare and social assistance sector in France: a nationwide population-based study ...

a The Medical Centre, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa, Queensland 4825, Australia, b School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia Dr A Michael Donoghue, Senior ...

Shift work is associated with a number of negative health outcomes, although it is not known whether it is associated with sick leave. This systematic review therefore aimed to determine whether an ...

2 Center for Environmental Health Research, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands 3 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the relative effects on performance of sleep deprivation and alcohol. METHODS Performance effects were studied in the same subjects over a period of 28 hours of sleep deprivation ...